US Plant Patent PP10843
Sunrenilabu
Torenia plant named `Sunrenilabu`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 10, 2017. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP10843
- Filed
- September 10, 1997
- Granted
- March 30, 1999
- Expires
- September 10, 2017
- Assignee
- SUNTORY LTD
- Inventor
- TAMURA YUJI; MIYAZAKI KIYOSHI
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a torenia plant which has large flowers and bi-color flower petals with light purple, deep purple and vivid purple, and light purple floral tube. The plant has semi-erect growth habit, medium branching and great profusion blooms, and the whole bush remains in bloom for a considerable period of time. The plant has a high resistance to heat, moderate resistance to diseases and pests, and grows and has flowers ordinarily in the shade of trees.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of torenia plant, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by (A) having large flowers and bi-color flower petals with light purple, deep purple and vivid purple, and light purple floral tube, (B) semi-erect growth habit, medium branching and great profusion blooms, the whole bush remaining in bloom for a considerable period of time, (C) a high resistance to heat, moderate resistance to diseases and pests and (D) growing and having flowers ordinarily in the shade of trees.
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